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    The document discusses microbes and microorganisms. It defines microbes as small living particles that eat, excrete waste, and reproduce. Microorganisms are divided into seven types: bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, fungi, viruses, and multicellular animal parasites. The document lists some examples of microorganisms and asks students to identify the category each belongs to. It also discusses how some microorganisms are helpful while others can be harmful, and asks students to sort examples into helpful, harmful, or both categories.

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    The document discusses microbes and microorganisms. It defines microbes as small living particles that eat, excrete waste, and reproduce. Microorganisms are divided into seven types: bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, fungi, viruses, and multicellular animal parasites. The document lists some examples of microorganisms and asks students to identify the category each belongs to. It also discusses how some microorganisms are helpful while others can be harmful, and asks students to sort examples into helpful, harmful, or both categories.

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    The document discusses microbes and microorganisms. It defines microbes as small living particles that eat, excrete waste, and reproduce. Microorganisms are divided into seven types: bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, fungi, viruses, and multicellular animal parasites. The document lists some examples of microorganisms and asks students to identify the category each belongs to. It also discusses how some microorganisms are helpful while others can be harmful, and asks students to sort examples into helpful, harmful, or both categories.

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    14/04/2023

    SCIENCE: WORLD OF LIFE DISCUSSIONS.


    SUBSTRAND: DIVERSITY OF LIVING THINGS

    TOPIC: MICROBES AND MICROORGANISMS

    LEARNING OUTCOMES: WALT


    • explain what microbes and microorganisms are
    • Name the different types of microorganisms
    shown in diagrams
    • Write names of the category of microbess that
    each organism belongs
    • State the helpful and the harmful of microbes
    and microorganisms to us.

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    Microbes and microorganisms benefit


    MICROBE AND MICROORGANISM
    and can harm our environment.
    ✓ Microbe is usually talking about a small
    particle. Microorganism is specifically a living
    particle, that eats, excretes waste, and
    reproduces, on such a small scale that we can’t
    see it.

    ✓ Microorganism are divided into seven types;


    bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, fungi,
    viruses, and multicellular animal parasities.

    3 4

    BELOW ARE EXAMPLES OF MICROORGANISMS.


    ACTIVITIES WRITE NAME OF THE CATEGORY OF MICROBES
    THAT EACH ORGANISM BELONGS.
    NAME THE TYPE OF MICROORGANISM SHOWN 1. COVID 19 :
    IN THE DIAGRAM BELOW. 2. MUSHROOM
    3. HIV AIDS
    4. YEAST
    5. LACTOBACILLUS
    6. RHIZOBIUM
    7. INFLUENZA

    5 6
    14/04/2023

    FILL IN THE MISSING SPACES WITH THE WORDS


    SOME MICROORGANISMS ARE HELPFUL, FROM THE LIST BELOW.
    YET OTHERS CAN BE VERY HARMFUL. MOULD WASH BREAD
    VIRUSES BACTERIA MIROSCOPE
    SORT THE YEAST MCROORGANISMS WATER.
    HELPFUL BOTH HARMFUL
    MICROORGANISMS AND Micro-organisms can only be seen through a powerful
    THEIR PRODUCTS INTO
    THE TABLE BELOW. _____ as they are very tiny living things. We can find
    _____ all around us in food, _______, air and in our
    YEAST, YOGHURT, MOULD, bodies. _______ is a microorganism found on decaying
    MUSHROOMS, GERMS, food. _______ are microorganisms which can cause the
    PLANKTON, BACTERIA, common cold. _____ found in all our mouths is a
    ALGAE, FUNGI, microorganisms. Bacteria can be very useful in making
    ANTIBIOTICS, PENICILLIA, _____ and beer in the form of ______.
    VACCINATIONS.
    To avoid the spread of harmful microorganisms we should
    _______ wash our hands regularly when touching food or
    after using the toilet.

    7 8

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